Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age

by Eric Gidal

In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as genuine translations of the poetry of Ossian, a fictionalized Caledonian bard of the third century. In Ossianic Unconformities Eric Gidal introduces the idiosyncratic publications of a group of nineteenth-century Scottish eccentrics who used statistics, cartography, and geomorphology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813938171
• ISBN13: 9780813938172
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher